diff --git a/test/xml/test_node_encoding.rb b/test/xml/test_node_encoding.rb
index 80019e045d..112ff7d40f 100644
--- a/test/xml/test_node_encoding.rb
+++ b/test/xml/test_node_encoding.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ module XML
     class TestNodeEncoding < Nokogiri::TestCase
       def setup
         super
-        @html = Nokogiri::HTML(File.read(HTML_FILE, encoding: Encoding::UTF_8), HTML_FILE)
+        @html = Nokogiri::HTML(File.open(HTML_FILE, "rb"))
       end
 
       def test_get_attribute